Handbuilt to help you get lost
I'm heading out this week on a 5-day bikepacking tour with Sean. We'll be riding from home up Foresthill Rd to Soda Springs, crossing highway 80 at Donner Pass, down past Truckee and on to Graegle, through Downieville, on to Forest City, skirting Nevada City, and then home. Right around 320 miles and 48,000ft of... Continue Reading →
A week or so ago the temperature just flipped a switch and i believe it's now fall. Sure, September 22nd passed too but it officially FEELS like fall now and that is my favorite season. I can't really tell it's fall since there aren't any aspens here to drive it home, the Black Oak's don't... Continue Reading →
I'll get back to posting framebuilding stuff someday but I just started on frame #20 and don't have much to show just yet. So more riding shots of the beautiful Sierras! First shots are from the Hole in the Ground trail up on Donner Pass. I rode with fellow framebuilder Smudgemo who is up in... Continue Reading →
Finally got out on a ride with Sean yesterday, this time he took me to Grouse Ridge. It wasn't really a beatdown but i am pretty tired today. We drove about an hour up the hill towards Tahoe and turned off on 20 and parked somewhere up Bowman Lake Road. After a few miles on... Continue Reading →
In the spirit of the Tour de France finishing I went for a road ride (actually, i don't care nor know which doper won this year). I usually ride the road as little as possible, in fact I don't even have a true road bike, but I've been wanting to check out this classic local... Continue Reading →
I was supposed to head up to Grouse Ridge with Sean today but a late night 'BEEP!' from the shop (which is only about 20 feet away from the house) got us a bit freaked out on what was about to blow up or was already on fire. Sean and I were supposed to meet... Continue Reading →
Lots of reports recently from Specialized's Colorado press/dealer camp about their new Fatbike the "Fatboy". Trek too is coming out with one, and Kona too. Fatbiking is no longer a fringe element my friends, and has quickly become the 'new-29er.' Now that I say that, it's all so obvious...it happened a couple years ago really.... Continue Reading →
The weird haze I was in for the last 4-6 weeks has finally left the building. I'm finally able to ride my bike again and feel good during and afterwards. It's been a long time coming. I gotta learn to play smarter now that I'm 40, as well as do that stretching and recovery stuff.... Continue Reading →
Built up and rollin the trails of Ned! I love to see the built up shots and get this type of feedback: "Four rides in....initial stream of thoughts: -I like how it corners, you really nailed the slack/nimble feel of G2. It responds nicely to the lean and holds a line. It sets up and... Continue Reading →
In getting prepared for my upcoming tour around Lake Tahoe this summer, I took out my rig packed up like it'll be on the tour with Timmy. We were supposed to go this week but because I hadn't ridden much over the last few weeks because of The Virus so we rescheduled. This is frame... Continue Reading →
I took the below photos while on a ride trying to follow some of the route I did 10 days ago. A new local riding buddy took me on a pretty sweet loop after meeting at the top of my street. I have been lucky enough to connect with what I believe to be the... Continue Reading →
Rode a nice 50-ish mile loop yesterday not too far from the house. Drove up to China Wall about 20 min up the road and then got on the bike for another 15 miles up the pavement to Robinson Flat where it turns to dirt. I had to check out the Duncan Pk Fire Lookout... Continue Reading →
This week I actually rode with 2, count em, TWO people...! Pretty crazy I know. I got to ride with an old friend of Mrs. Meriwether's from 25 years ago. She had no idea he rode bikes. Turns out he's kind of a honch and works at one of the 4 bike shops in Auburn.... Continue Reading →
It's a funny thing when you move to a new place -- it seems massive...like you'll never learn where everything is or where each road and trail goes. When i was a kid i remember thinking San Rafael was a huge city and SO far away (it was under 3 miles away) from the town... Continue Reading →
Brother Wolfe visited the area last weekend and we rode a short local loop a day after he ran a 50k running race. (I'd be in bed had I done that the day before followed by a night at the pub.) I got to see his Hunter singlespeed and somehow neglected to take a photo... Continue Reading →
I got out for a couple hours on the 'bike-which-contains-Knards' (for lack of a better bike name) at lunch yesterday, and so did a bunch of other riders. The weather was and is just nuts here -- to ride in shorts and short sleeves in the 68 degree temps in late February...? Earliest singletrack I've... Continue Reading →
Riding it this weekend, but wanted to post a few shots. A quick word on the Knards and Rabbit Hole rims - The 120tpi Knards are very light for their size. No, i didn't weight them, but people are claiming around 900 grams. I would actually prefer to have the 27tpi version just from the... Continue Reading →
I've been mostly riding the fatbike at the end of the road this winter. I have the choice of going 15 minutes downhill to Auburn to ride somewhat dry singletrack with shorts on, or going 15 minutes uphill to the snowpacked road and riding the Rotundcycle on groomers...not a bad place to be! The thing... Continue Reading →
Unrelated to building bikes of the Fat variety, but an interesting post on Fat-Bike.com about IMBA's new draft Fatbiking "best practices." Sad that stuff like this needs to be drafted and stated at all but i guess it's a good thing. I'll just repeat here what I commented there which is about only one part... Continue Reading →
It's fatbike time! It snowed 5 - 7 FEET in Tahoe last week and the road now ends at the China Wall OHV staging area (a 20min drive up Foresthill Rd from my house). The gate closed last week and the Forest Service got the groomer out. They have been rolling the cat down the... Continue Reading →